August 26 - September 23, 2017
Curator’s Statement
FourSquared 2017 is a unique exploration of the works of sixteen Bay Area artists. Each of the artists has produced sixteen small works, presented in sixteen clusters giving the audience the experience of sixteen micro solo exhibitions. All works are priced under $500. This 8th annual exhibition is a reflection of the co-curators’ strong and abiding interest in local, affordable art represented here by some of our most talented local artists. Curators: Michael Yochum is the author of SF Art News, which writes about artists and openings in the San Francisco Bay Area. Matthew Frederick is founder of Art Farm, an artist collective in the Mission, where he maintains his studio. Michael and Matthew are co-founders of Arc Gallery, Arc Fine Arts Consulting & Arc Studios, along with Stephen C. Wagner and Priscilla Otani.
Catalog designed by Michael Yochum Logo image by Mitchell Confer © Arc Gallery 2017
Featured Artists
Sue Averell Jason Avery Rodney Ewing
Aynur Girgin Westen
Tracy Taylor Grubbs
Aondrea Maynard
Michael McConnell Heidi McDowell John McRae Miwako Nishizawa Derek Nunn Daniel Phill Charles Stinson Melissa Wagner Bambi Waterman Ealish Wilson
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, August 26th, 7-10PM ARTIST TALK & BRUNCH CLOSING RECEPTION: Saturday, September 23rd, 12-3PM
Sue Averell
Conspicuous Consumption With each pallet knife load of beautiful pigment, my eyes take in the fresh paint as it sticks to the smooth surface. It isn’t only the thick paint that intrigues and inspires my work; it is the endless possibilities of color and my emotional reaction to it. It seems as my style evolves, my consumption of paint continues to grow. My love of impasto paint is evident across all my work and especially in this series. When developing these 16 pieces I pondered what people consume a lot of, and after observing 100’s of people in Sausalito, ice-cream was it! My studio is located in Sausalito, where visitors come from every part of the world. Everyone seems to be conspicuously consuming ice-cream and sometimes… my art.
website: http://sueaverell.com/ email: gallerysausalito@hotmail.com
EDUCATION 1985
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2016 2015 2012 2011 2010 2009
Prima Fine Art Gallery, Laguna Beach SOFA, Chicago, Gallery Sausalito, Sausalito CA Prima Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA College of Marin, Kentfield, CA Blooms To Buildings, Robert Morris University, Chicago, IL Blooms To Buildings, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA More Than Cupcakes, Signature Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA FEEL THE COLOR, Signature Gallery, Santa Fe, NM JUGGLING COLOR, Signature Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
RESIDENCY PROGRAMS 2016
Art Hub, Abu Dhabi – sponsored by the US Embassy
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Robert Morris University, Chicago, IL Oxford Lodging Group, San Francisco, CA Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA InHale Corp., San Mateo, CA Support Soft, Redwood City, CA Art Hub, Abu Dhabi, UAE
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Stephenie Meyer, Author, The Twilight Series, Phoenix, AZ Kevin Pollak, Actor, LA, CA Jon Cryer, Actor, LA, CA
Sue Averell’s work is in hundreds of private collections worldwide. Since 2008 much of Sue’s work is commissioned by private collectors.
Sue Averell
Conspicuous Consumption 1 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Conspicuous Consumption 2 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Conspicuous Consumption 5 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Conspicuous Consumption 6 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Sue Averell
Conspicuous Consumption 3 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Conspicuous Consumption 4 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Conspicuous Consumption 7 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Conspicuous Consumption 8 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Sue Averell
Conspicuous Consumption 9 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Conspicuous Consumption 10 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Conspicuous Consumption 13 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Conspicuous Consumption 14 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Sue Averell
Conspicuous Consumption 11 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Conspicuous Consumption 12 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Conspicuous Consumption 15 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Conspicuous Consumption 16 acrylic on wood panel 9" x 9" $475
Jason Avery
The Algorithm Project This project is a concept-based grouping of paintings made specifically for the FourSquared exhibition. The work explores inter-personal relationships in the information age and the influence of social mediabased algorithms on the way we transmit and receive information. I began by asking Facebook followers to send me “selfies” and then used the images I received as the source material for the work. This “crowd-sourcing” of the images took the role of the artist-as-selector out of my hands. The photos were then run through a visual algorithmic process that I designed in a graphics program. Every photo had the same graphic processes applied equally regardless of the quality of the source image. The resulting “algorithmic portraits” were then painted in oil on panels by hand.
website: http://jasonaverykelch.com/ email: jasonaverykelch@gmail.com
EDUCATION 1995-98 University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Undergraduate Fine Arts SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 1997
LifeLive, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, Ca The Los Angeles International Art Show, Los Angeles, Ca The Line-up, JAG Modern, San Francisco, Ca Smash Gallery, L.A. Art Show Preview, San Francisco, Ca Smash Gallery, San Francisco, Ca The Edge of Realism, Abend Gallery, Denver, Co Totems, solo exhibition, J2 Gallery San Francisco The Vinyl Show, WonderlandSF, San Francisco, Ca Sonoma State University Santa Rosa, Ca Figure works, Chroma Gallery, Santa Rosa, Ca Annual Group Show, J2 Gallery, San Francisco, Ca Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, Ca Non-Corporeal, solo exhibition, J2 Gallery, San Francisco, Ca Flying Goat, Healdsburg, Ca Richard Ragan Gallery, Healdsburg, Ca Lounge Arts Gallery, Jackson, Ms Gumps, San Francisco, Ca Locals, Geyserville, Ca Flying Goat, Healdsburg, Ca Lounge Arts Gallery, Jackson, Ms Flying Goat, Healdsburg, Ca Undergraduate Fine Art Exhibition, Priebe Gallery, Oshkosh, Wi
RESIDENCY PROGRAMS 2014
Artist in residence, Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, California
PRESS
American Art Collector Magazine, August 2015 : The Edge of Realism at Abend Gallery Studio: 50 Sonoma County Artists photo essay by Bob Cornellis 2013, Color Folio Press Studio Visit Magazine Issue #27 June 2014 open studios press
AWARDS 2014 2013 2012 1997
Grant Recipient: Chalk Hill Artist Residency Community Foundation Discovered awards nominee finalist Arts Council Sonoma County Emerging Visual Artist Award nominee Arts Council Sonoma County Emerging Visual Artist Award nominee Chancellors award for best in show, undergraduate fine art exhibition, Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin
COLLECTIONS Forth Vineyards, Healdsburg CA; The Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg CA; Private Collections
Jason Avery
Algorithmic Portrait 1 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Algorithmic Portrait 2 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Algorithmic Portrait 3 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Algorithmic Portrait 4 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Jason Avery
Algorithmic Portrait 5 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Algorithmic Portrait 6 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Algorithmic Portrait 7 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Algorithmic Portrait 8 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Jason Avery
Algorithmic Portrait 9 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Algorithmic Portrait 10 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Algorithmic Portrait 11 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Algorithmic Portrait 12 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Jason Avery
Algorithmic Portrait 13 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Algorithmic Portrait 14 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Algorithmic Portrait 15 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Algorithmic Portrait 16 oil on birch panel 10" x 10" $275
Rodney Ewing
Strange Fruit Strange Fruit is based on the facial angle studies of Petrus Camper. An 18th century Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, anthropologist, paleontologist and naturalist who stated that African features were the furthest away from the standards of “classical beauty�. For this project I have appropriated his examples of African features as subjects to speak for the African American men, women, and children that have perished at the hands of state sponsored violence. Each board represents a specific individual such as Tamir Rice, or Sandra Bland. The text on each board is taken from the language that is generated from Google image searches of each person. Many of the descriptions overlap and align with each other to create an unfortunate and ongoing narrative for a community that is often under siege.
website: https://www.rodneyewing.com/ email: ledette@gmail.com
studio: phone:
720 York St., San Francisco CA 941110 (510) 467-5946
EDUCATION 1992 1989
Master of Fine Art: Printmaking, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Bachelor of Fine Art: Printmaking, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2017 McNeese State University 30th Annual Works on Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA Sanctuary City: With Liberty and Justice for Some? San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA Reconstruct, Long Island University Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY Beyond Printmaking 5, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas Justice for All?, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza Community College, Cupertino, CA Call for Beauty, Root Division, San Francisco, CA With Liberty and Justice for Some?, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Vanishing Point: 3.9 Art Collective Reflects on Black Communities in SF, Jewish Community Center, San Francisco, CA With Liberty and Justice for Some?, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley CA Deitrus, San Jose ICA, San Jose CA FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA 2016 What’s Inside Her Never Dies... A Black Woman’s Legacy, Yeelen Gallery, Miami, FL Commission-Bay Area Activist: In Collaboration with Precita Eyes, Google Offices, San Francisco, CA Declarations for the New Year, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA stArtup Art Fair LA, Highland Gardens Hotel, Hollywood, CA stArtup Art Fair Chicago, Mile North Hotel, Chicago, IL Take This Hammer, Art + Media Activism From the Bay Area: YBCA, San Francisco, CA Fact&Fiction/Cloud Jar, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA Between Worlds, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Selected Works, Jack Fischer Gallery, CA Untethered, Nancy Toomey Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2015 What’s Inside Her Never Dies… A Black Woman’s Legacy, Yeelen Gallery, Miami, Fl Voices, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA Artist in Residence, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA Passport, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA Security Question, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA stArtup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA Obsidere, Micro Climate Collective, Alterspace Gallery, San Francisco,CA Hiraeth: 3.9 Collective explore the concept of home, Thacher Gallery, USF, SF, CA 2014 ntroductions 2014, Root Division, San Francisco, CA The Intuitionist Show, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Wabi-Sabi, MicroClimate Collective, Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2013 Rituals of Water, IcTus Project Space, San Francisco, CA Pulp 3 (ire straits), Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, Al Bay Area Currents: Navigating the New, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA Collective Works, 3.9 Collective, ArtPadSF 2013, San Francisco, CA ArtSpan Selections, ArtPadSF 2013, San Francisco, CA Trace+Gestures, Greymatter Gallery, Milwaukee, WI RESIDENCIES 2017-18 Artist-in-Residence, Recology, San Franciscco CA 2017 Artist-in-Residence, Hangar Xerem, Lisbon, Portugal
Alex Nieto acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Alton Strerling acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Amadou acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Eric Harris acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Rodney Ewing
Freddie Gray acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
George Stinney Jr. acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Jordan Edwards acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Mario Woods acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Rodney Ewing
Michael Brown acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Oscar acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Philando acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Sandra acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Rodney Ewing
Tamir acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Tanisha Anderson acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Trayvon acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Walter Scott acrylic ink and pigment ink on found chalkboards 9" x 12" $200
Rodney Ewing
Aynur Girgin Westen
Synchronicity
Growing up in rural western Turkey, I spent my days running between fields, climbing olive trees, and catching free rides by hanging on the backs of horse carts. Rows of cherries in wooden boxes, lines of an old olive tree trunk, shapely fig leaves between the thin branches—these images caught my attention early. Now, as a full-time artist, I still look at the world with the curious eyes of the girl from the village. A self-taught photographer, I employ camera shake, multiple exposures, and other unconventional techniques to transform familiar objects into abstract compositions. This series, Synchronicity, explores Carl Jung’s concept of "meaningful coincidences”—events that occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related. Shot in busy public spaces, anonymous figures pass each other at a frenetic pace, blending into each other, and creating ambiguous new shapes. Past, present, and future overlap. Ghosts appear in the crowd. Patterns emerge from chaos. These images were captured using multiple exposures, and encased in thick acrylic blocks. They can be displayed individually, or in “meaningful” clusters of several images.
website: http://www.aynurgirginwesten.com/ email: aynur@mac.com
Aynur Girgin Westen lives and works in Oakland. She participates East Bay Open Studios at Norton Factory and San Francisco Open Studios at 1890 Bryant Street. She supports numerous non-profits with donations to art auctions, including Art for AIDS, Oakland School for the Arts. EDUCATION 2011 2010 1993
History of Cinema, Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA History of Fashion, Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA BA, English Literature, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 2015 2014 2013
CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA The Branson School, Ross, CA Fly Wheel, San Francisco, CA Progressive Grounds, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015
FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Abstracted, SF Women Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA Reassembling: Envisioning Home in the Face of Exile and Loss, Borderlands Books, San Francisco, CA Snap!, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA City Art Cooperative Gallery, San Francisco, CA Impulse, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA ArtlyOwl Pop-up Art Show, Terrific Street, San Francisco, CA All Too Ready, Curated State, San Francisco, CA Solidarity-Unity-Acceptance, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA Party For The Parks, Curated State & SF Parks Alliance, Palace of Fine Arts, CA SBFA Trunk Show, Stephanie Breitbard Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA City Art Cooperative Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Synchronicity 1 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Synchronicity 2 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Synchronicity 3 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Synchronicity 4 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Aynur Girgin Westen
Synchronicity 5 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Synchronicity 6 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Synchronicity 7 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Synchronicity 8 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Aynur Girgin Westen
Synchronicity 9 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Synchronicity 10 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Synchronicity 11 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Synchronicity 12 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Aynur Girgin Westen
Synchronicity 13 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Synchronicity 14 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Synchronicity 15 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Synchronicity 16 satin photo paper mounted on 1” acrylic block 8" x 12" $450
Aynur Girgin Westen
Tracy Taylor Grubbs Ablution Series III In art and in life, I seem to be searching for ways to let the static experience of a single view give way to the ecstatic possibilities of the ephemeral. Most of my works are visual metaphors that expand or deepen my understanding of the world. I draw inspiration from the power of art’s silence and stillness to convey knowledge. A sink is an object at once empty and full of possibilities, a reminder of the sacred in the guise of the everyday. It can be a baptismal font, a place to stack the dishes, a place to wash our hands. I have been working with images of sinks for several years now. Over time, these forms have taken on new meaning as portals to the flow of life and the fragility of the human body. For this latest iteration of the Ablution Series, I let the resistance of the material I was painting over and my own memory work together to conjure a series of forms and their ever-present emptiness.
website: http://www.tracygrubbs.com/ email: tracy@tracygrubbs.com
EDUCATION Ongoing International Contemporary Artist Workshops with Rosenclaire, Florence, Italy 2001-04 SF Art Institute, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA 1986 St. Lawrence University, B.A. with Honors in Environmental Studies and Political Philosophy SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA Bay Area Annual , Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA Oppland, Kunstsenter,, Lillehammer, Norway Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Hooloon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Cannery Gallery, San Francisco, CA Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA Landscapes, Hall Spassov Gallery, Seattle, WA Small Works, Artzone 461, San Francisco, CA Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 50 Works in 50 Days, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA Neither Here Nor There, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Hall Spassov Gallery, Bellevue, WA Counterpulse Gallery, San Francisco CA Hall Spassov Gallery, Bellevue, WA Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA Hall Spassov Gallery, Seattle, WA Toby’s Gallery, Pt. Reyes Station, CA Hall Spassov Gallery, Seattle, WA Artist Collaboration & Performance, Shotwell Studios, San Francisco, CA Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA Hall Spassov Gallery, Seattle, WA Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS 2017 2015 2013 2012 2011 2007
Center for Cultural Innovation, Creative Capacity Fund, San Francisco, CA Yosemite Renaissance Foundation Artist Residency, Wawona, CA Pilchuck School of Glass, John H. Hauberg Fellowship and Artist Residency, Seattle, WA Shotwell Dance Studio Residency in collaboration with Hope Mohr, San Francisco, CA Venice Printmaking Studio Artist Residency, Venice Italy Morris Graves Foundation Artist Residency, Loleta, CA
Tracy Taylor Grubbs
Ablution # 1 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Ablution # 2 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Ablution # 3 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Ablution # 4 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Tracy Taylor Grubbs
Ablution # 5 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Ablution # 6 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Ablution # 7 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Ablution # 8 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Tracy Taylor Grubbs
Ablution # 9 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Ablution # 10 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Ablution # 11 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Ablution # 12 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Tracy Taylor Grubbs
Ablution # 13 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Ablution # 14 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Ablution # 15 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Ablution # 16 oil & graphite on panel 10" x 10" $495
Aondrea Maynard
Sanctuary Bay Sanctuary Bay is a collection of new oil paintings inspired by living in San Francisco, a true sanctuary city, vibrant with color and life, protected by lush forests and a deep sea. To find oasis at a journey’s end, one holds vision, intention & surrenders to bring stillness and peace to both our outside and inner worlds. In these challenging times, finding sanctuary is more important than ever. Aondrea’s work continues to be a modern interpretation of the natural world. The theme chosen for this collection came from her great appreciation for a life lived near the ocean with its infinite capacity to soothe and nourish her soul. Each painting is an abstracted exploration of atmospheric elements of nature where the visual poetry of color, texture and light form an emotionally evocative experience filled with a quiet reverence for living in such a beautiful place. As a whole, these paintings tell a story about finding safe havens midst life’s unknowns, rich with gestural mark making to express life’s mysterious dance between chance and intention. Individually, each piece allows numerous and ever-changing memories to arise, resulting in feelings of calm, transcendent hope and an expanded sense of place and belonging in our natural world.
website: http://www.aondreamaynard.com/ email: aondreamaynard@gmail.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 2012 2009 2008 2007 2004
The Language of Light, Bryant St. Gallery, Palo Alto, CA PORTAL, Weiss Gallery, Calgary, Alberta Canada Worlds Between, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Luminous Shadow, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA Passage, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Liquid Seasons, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA Earth, Sea and Sky, CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 2014 2011 2010 2009 2008 2006
Ash & Smoke, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 28th Annual Art Auction, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA The White Show, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Journey, 2 Person Show, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Sea & Sky, 2 Person Show, Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley, CA Intimacies, 2 Person Show, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA Luminaries, 2 Person Show, Bryant St. Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 29th Annual Art Auction, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Chiaroscuro, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Language in Colour, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA Two Feet Up, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
ART FAIRS 2010 2008 2007 2007
Art Faire, Los Angeles, CA Red Dot, Art Faire, New York, NY FLOW, International Art Fair, Miami FL Affordable Art Faire, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES 2008 2003
Red Cinders Art Center, Na’alehu, Hawaii Legion of Honor/De Young Arts Center, September 2003, San Francisco, CA
REPRESENTATION
Bryant Street Gallery Kelsey Michaels Fine Art Seager Gray Gallery Neal Menzies Fine Art
Palo Alto, CA Laguna Beach, CA Mill Valley, CA Beverly Hills, CA
Aondrea Maynard
Sanctuary Bay 1 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Sanctuary Bay 2 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Sanctuary Bay 5 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Sanctuary Bay 6 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Aondrea Maynard
Sanctuary Bay 3 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Sanctuary Bay 4 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Sanctuary Bay 7 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Sanctuary Bay 8 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Aondrea Maynard
Sanctuary Bay 9 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Sanctuary Bay 10 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Sanctuary Bay 13 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Sanctuary Bay 14 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Aondrea Maynard
Sanctuary Bay 11 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Sanctuary Bay 12 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Sanctuary Bay 15 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Sanctuary Bay 16 oil on wood panel 10" x 10" $400
Michael McConnell
Anthromorphic Observations
My friend's son, Jasper, gave me a list of sixteen of his favorite animals. I used these animals to articulate the personalities of the people I observed in the photos of Laura DeAngelis.
website: http://michaelmcconnellart.com/ email: poopingrabbit@yahoo.com
photo credit: Robin Lam
EDUCATION 1999
BFA, Columbus College of Art and Design
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Introvert/Extrovert, Blackbird, San Francisco, CA You Are Here, Marion and Rose’s Workshop, Oakland, CA Domesticity, Julia Martin Gallery, Nashville, TN Cozy, Marion and Rose’s Workshop, Oakland, CA Infinitely Bound, Interface Gallery, Oakland, Ca Games Children Play, Marion and Rose’s Workshop, Oakland, CA Tethered, Braunstein/Quay, San Francisco, CA
RECENT GROUP EXHBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA ARC, Nacotta Gallery, Portsmouth, NH Sweet and Low, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Enormous Tiny Art 19, Nahcotta Gallery, Portsmouth, NH September Show, Abrams Claghorn, Albany, CA Strike Away Paxton Gate, San Francisco, CA Contemporary/ Contemporary, Guantlet Gallery, San Francisco , CA SquaredAlumni, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA CA 12x12, Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, CA Bestiary, Smart Clothes Gallery, New York, NY Peaceable Kingdom, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA BE:E, La Porte Peinte, Noyers, France Captured: Specimens in Contemporary Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Myths of Progress, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA Retrofit, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA CaliforNoyers, La Porte Peinte, Noyers, France 7 From the Bay, Marji Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Graphic Nature, SOAP Gallery, San Francisco, CA FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Ruth Braunstein Collection: 1961- Present, Santa Cruz, CA ID Redux, Cain/Schlute Gallery, San Francisco, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
25 Artists to Watch, Watercolor Magazine, Fall 2011 100 Artists of the West Coast II, Tina Skinner, Schiffer Publishing, 2009 New American Paintings 79: Juried by Ritz Gonzalez
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & LECTURES 2008
Residency at LPP, Noyers France Eastern Oregon University, Visiting Lecture SECA Award nominee Columbus State University, GA, Visiting Lecture and Demo UC Berkley, Visiting Lecture in Painting
Michael McConnell
Acclimating acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Sonic Parking Lot acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Dairy Go Round acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Back Alley Meditation acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Michael McConnell
Wash, Sun Dry, and Fold acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
He Knew Damn Well The Couch Was Off Limits acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Dancing on My Own acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Box Lunch acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Michael McConnell
Leader of the Pack acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Urban Icebergs acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Peeking Through Perennials acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Koala Corner acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Michael McConnell
Monkey Bars acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Only Otter at Lazy Bear Weekend acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Museum Guardian acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
PBRobin acrylic on panel 8" x 10" $390
Heidi McDowell Yosemite Falls Rooted in the tradition of landscape painting, my work explores our contemporary relationship to the natural world as it is shaped by digital media and car culture. Technology gives us the ability to swiftly collect seemingly endless amounts of data with little incentive to edit. What we trade for this ease is any sense of deep understanding or memory. Using the visual language of digital source material (lens flare, odd colors, fringing, dust on the sensor) as a familiar reference point, I paint scenes plucked from the vast stream of quickly captured images. By combining highly specific photorealistic imagery with the relatively imprecise and unpredictable qualities of oil paint applied to a hand built canvas, I intend to return a sense of weight and permanence to the moments we’ve overlooked and lost. If we can become more grounded in the present, we have the ability to make a stronger connection to our changing environment. Sixteen Views of Yosemite Falls is a record of my travels to Yosemite Valley and the amazing variability of its iconic waterfall through the hours of the day and changes of season.
website: http://www.heidimatic.com/ email: info@heidimatic.com
Heidi McDowell was born in Texas. She lives and works in San Francisco, California. EDUCATION 1997
BA in Architecture and Art, Rice University, Houston, TX
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014 2012 2011 2010 2009
Drawing Paintings Painting Drawings , Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA Window Seat , Campfire Gallery, San Francisco, CA Housing Studies , Curated States, San Francisco, CA Sarah M. Newton & Heidi McDowell , Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA Places , Thornton Tomasetti, San Francisco, CA A Sense of Place , Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA Territories , City Hall, San Francisco, CA Territories , Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA Road Trip , Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA Heidi McDowell: Recent Oil Paintings , Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA Light Conditions , Visual Aid Gallery, San Francisco, CA Gigantic , Bioscrip Pharmacy, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007
FourSquared , Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Wild Wild West , Slate Art, San Ramon Valley Conference Center, San Ramon, CA The Way You Make Me Feel: Curating Loss and Resilience as the City Goes Boom!$$$$� , a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA Architecture & Interiors , Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA Works on Paper , Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA Why Paint a Landscape? , Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Dynamics of Painters , Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Realists , Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA LandsCApes: Glimpses of Everyday California , de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA Introductions 2010: New Artists & Fresh Works , ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA Nothing Out of the Ordinary , Liquid Spaces, San Francisco, CA Drawing: Four Artists Respond to Detritus , a.Muse Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA Civil Twilight , Electric Works, San Francisco, CA
COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Heidi McDowell
YF 1 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
YF 2 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
YF 3 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
YF 4 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
Heidi McDowell
YF 5 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
YF 6 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
YF 7 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
YF 8 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
Heidi McDowell
YF 9 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
YF 10 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
YF 11 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
YF 12 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
Heidi McDowell
YF 13 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
YF 14 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
YF 15 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
YF 16 oil on panel 10" x 8" $495
John McRae Wings of Change
A Self-Portrait in Sixteen Pieces To me, art is a vehicle for transformation, and Wings of Change is about the transformations I’ve made as an artist. The sixteen pieces merge to make a single self-portrait, yet I’m just as happy to see them fly off in different directions. My artistic career began in 1970s Fresno, helping my stepfather upholster home bars, shaggin’ wagons, and other icons of the decade. I later joined the Great American Grape Tray Company, refurbishing and decoupaging the vintage grape drying trays ubiquitous in the San Joaquin Valley. I was good at observing and picking up techniques, and these early jobs gave me a sense of color, composition, precision, and finish. Throughout the ’80s I built a career as a landscaper, creating living environments for corporations and private clients. During this period I discovered the art of retail merchandising. Intriguingly, the principles of outdoor design applied to indoor retail as well. Vintage Christmas decor especially appealed to me for its use of “real” elements — wire, glass, velvet, and wood. My partner and I opened a Christmas shop, Every Day’s a Holiday, in San Francisco in the late ’90s. I began recreating vintage ornaments, and my works were licensed worldwide, helping establish a dedicated following. In 2004 I joined Castle in the Air, in Berkeley, as an in-store artist and teacher of forgotten crafting techniques. Here I have truly been able to embrace the process of artistic transformation, working in many mediums and scales. My recent work includes the merging of gemstones and decorative German foil paper into highly prized baroque jewelry.
website: http://blog.castleintheair.biz/2014/11/castle-in-air-artist-profile-john-mcrae.html email: grnplce@gmail.com
JOHN McRAE is a mixed-media artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2014 2004
FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Jewels of Dresden, Castle in the Air, Berkeley CA Jewels of Dresden, Castle in the Air, Berkeley CA Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, Santa Rosa CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY 2003
Vicky Elliott: Flights of Fancy from California, The New York Times, November 29, 2003
COLLECTIONS
Calvin’s Christmas & Garden Store Castle in the Air, Berkeley Seasons of Cannon Falls Private collections, California and worldwide
TEACHING 2004 – Present
Arts instructor, Castle in the Air, Berkeley CA
Miwako Nishizawa Sixteen Views of Golden Gate Bridge My work has focused in a broad sense is on my personal reactions to the colors, shapes, and moods of the American landscape. I seek to bring a fresh and somewhat unique perspective to the familiar. My primary medium is Japanese Woodblock. Working on a smaller scale allows me to enjoy the full range of technical possibilities that the Japanese woodblock process offers. I am able to re-use blocks and re-cast scenes across the seasons and times of day with subtle additions and variation. While my work is intended for all, I feel this series will feel personal for Bay Area residents. Having set my roots here, I feel a deep connection to the community and to its unique love for the natural beauty of the Bay Area.
website: http://www.miwakonishizawa.com/ email: miwako.nishizawa@gmail.com
EDUCATION
MA Studio Art—New York University, majored in Printmaking BA Education—Kyoto University of Education, majored in Art Education
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014-15 2014 2014 2013 2004 2001 1995 1991 1987
BART and Beyond, Consulate General of Japan, San Francisco CA (solo) Douro Printmaking Biennial-3rd Global Print 2017, Douro, Portugal KALA Artists Annual Exhibition, KALA, Berkeley CA Art at Wharepuke, 4th International Open Printmaking Exhibition, Northland, New Zealand Multiples, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond VA SquaredAlumni, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Twelve Views of Virginia, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA (solo) Civic Center Art Exhibition, Berkeley CA FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Transmission Gallery, Oakland CA First Street Gallery, New York NY Choice, NCWCA Juried exhbition at Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Phoenix Gallery, New York NY Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ Freundorfer Gallery at the Kitano, New York NY Japan Society, New York NY 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York NY Gallery Sai, Kyoto Japan
SELECTED TEACHING, DEMONSTRATIONS, EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH, AWARDS 2015 015 2014 2010 2004 1995-01 1994, 95 1994, 97
California State University, Chico Kala Art Institute Parent Artist Residency Award Virginia Museum of Fine Art Studio School Diablo Valley College City and Country School Princeton University Art Museum The Japan Society New York American Museum of Natural History The Manhattan Graphics Center
SELECTED EXPERIENCES: 2013 2015
Juror, Beauty of Imperfection: Wabi Sabi, The O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA Juror, 20th Turner Juried Student Print Exhibition, California State University, Chico CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA COVERAGE
Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society, Number 34, 2013, pp 120-121 Choice: An Art Exhibition of Women’s Reproductive Rights, published by Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art ASIAN ART: The newspaper for collectors, dealers, museums and galleries, November 2014, pp 18 Style Weekly: Richmond’s alternative for news, arts, culture and opinion, Feb 3-23, 2015, Vol. 33, No. 8 Need Supply Co, blog http://blog.needsupply.com/2014/11/16/miwako-nishizawa-twelve-views-of-virginia/ Artist Miwako Nishizawa @VMFA, Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmfynFn4WMQ
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 1 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 2 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 3 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 4 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Miwako Nishizawa
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 5 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 6 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 7 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 8 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Miwako Nishizawa
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 9 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 10 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 11 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 12 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Miwako Nishizawa
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 13 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 14 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 15 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Sixteen Views of the Golden Gate Bridge 16 Japanese woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $300
Miwako Nishizawa
Derek Nunn Rare Earth Elements Stones are usually lumped with sticks as just the detritus of the world, but get away from the city out to where the earth is itself, and you’ll see an entire language of geology murmuring away in every landscape. Slowed to the limit, gnarled in time, these forms appear permanent only because we have no idea what it really means to endure, to last, to be cycling at the grandest possible scale. Each is a story, an exertion, a lapse, a resurgence, an improvisation on the theme of creation. While we flash in an out of existence, barely blinking, they watch us come and they watch us go. These Rare Earth Elements are the timeless face of this old world.
website: email:
http://www.art4lifesf.com derek@art4lifesf.com
EDUCATION:: Self-taught artist PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: As a result of showing his work over the past 15 years during the annual Spring and Fall Open Studios in San Francisco, Derek’s work is in many private collections in the USA and Europe. SELECT EXHIBITIONS: 2017 2015 2014 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Linda K. Jordan Gallery, Washington DC Chemers Gallery, Tustin CA Chemers Gallery, Tustin CA Reaves Gallery, San Francisco CA Chemers Gallery, Tustin CA Hang Art Gallery, San Francisco CA Hang Art Gallery, San Francisco CA Hang Art Gallery, San Francisco CA Hang Art Gallery, San Francisco CA
Derek Nunn
Caldera mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Banded Iron mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Basalt Towers mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Mega Livadi mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Derek Nunn
Dome and Basin mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
HooDoo mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Dakota Buttes mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Ptygmatic Fold mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Derek Nunn
Plunging Fold mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Red Ridge mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Waterpocket Fold mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Boxwork mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Derek Nunn
Chevron Fold mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Pillow Basalts mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Spectaculaire Fold mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Geode mixed media on panel 10" x 10" $400
Daniel Phill Springsummer Made in the spring and summer of 2017, this Springsummer series of paintings are abstracted interpretations of the natural world. This is an evolution of my reimagining of vegetation, flowers, and the landscape. Springsummer was painted together as a group, meant to hang as a whole or be viewed individually. Using color and emotional content, I wanted a sense of continuity to exist in this series. The gestures and marks found throughout my work are the result of a journey revealed in many layers. My images blend and melt into each other through the application of broad strokes and swaths of wet-into-wet paint. I aim to create paintings that are organic and unfolding, playing between the boundaries of abstraction and representation. My style has been said to have an “anarchic manner” and described as “unrehearsed expressionism.” Bill Scott, in Art in America Magazine, writes "Phill’s style in his current series of floral paintings owe a great debt to abstract expressionism's fluidity and improvisational process. Not a trace of angst or elegiac feeling is to be found in these calmly sinuous paintings. Phill composes his paintings at the same time that he tries to dissolve the representational element of his images to create what could be called premier-coup abstraction.”
website: http://www.danielphill.com/ email: danielphill@me.com phone: (415) 305-5457
DANIEL PHILL was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. He is a painter based in San Francsco. EDUCATION 1983 1978
Master of Fine Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA George Billis Gallery, New York, NY Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA Ligne Roset, San Francisco, CA Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Ramey Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 2015 2014 2013
George Billis Gallery, Southampton, Southampton, NY Flowers & Fields, Ruhlen–Owen Contemporary, 2 person show, Santa Fe, NM Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA Art Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY SFMOMA Artists Gallery, 3 person show, San Francisco, CA Conversations on Abstraction, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, 3 person show, Santa Fe, NM Art Market San Francisco, Art Fair, San Francisco, CA Contemporary Organic, Studio Shop Gallery, 3 person show, Burlingame, CA Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Art Essex Gallery, 3 person show, Essex, CT New Year Group Show, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA Red Dot Miami Art Fair, Miami FL California Dreaming, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, 2 person show, Santa Fe, NM Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston, TX
SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA; Citicorp, San Francisco, CA; Citigroup Private Bank, CA; Clear Channel Communications Inc., New York, NY; de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA; Ernst & Young, Dallas, TX; First USA Bank, Dallas, TX; GTE, Dallas, TX; Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; Hollins University Art Collection, Roanoke, VA; Kimberly Clark Inc., Dallas, TX; Morgan Stanley, Los Angeles, CA; Nordstrom, Seattle, WA; Pfizer Inc., New York, NY; Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA; Sprint, Overland Park, KS; Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Sutter Health Corporate Offices, Emeryville, CA; Texas A&M University Library, Killeen, TX; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ; University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; University of West Florida Collection, Pensacola, FL; U. S. Department of State, Washington, DC; Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ
Daniel Phill
Springsummer 1 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Springsummer 2 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Springsummer 3 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Springsummer 4 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Daniel Phill
Springsummer 5 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Springsummer 6 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Springsummer 7 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Springsummer 8 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Daniel Phill
Springsummer 9 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Springsummer 10 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Springsummer 11 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Springsummer 12 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Daniel Phill
Springsummer 13 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Springsummer 14 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Springsummer 15 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Springsummer 16 acrylic & mixed media on panel 12" x 12" $495
Charles Stinson Devices of Dubious Utility
from the Museum of Post-Truth Artifacts These Devices of Dubious Utility are darkly whimsical observations about efforts (& non-efforts) to negotiate a world that demands yet refuses summarization in bite-sized slogans and media snippets. This ‘instant-on’ world of accelerating change flings aside its discards: Old tools, jobs they performed, people who used them -- all referenced in these assemblages cobbled together of found objects plus bamboo, wood, wire, hemp, paint and glue. The bases appear multi-layered and time-worn, as though each bears a fusty, future relic. ‘Distressed’ labels declare “Device for . . . “ some odd purpose; on backs are artist-signed certificates with title, ID number, “instructions” for use, and impressed logos of the fictitious “Museum of Post-Truth Artifacts.” The titles of these ‘future artifacts’ reference willfully twisted political disruptions of meaning, thought, and language: Spectacle trumps truth, and resulting turmoil distracts from vital, tenuously-sustained matters of nourishing food, clean air, water, health, peace, and respectful social discourse. In a sense, these Devices are my responses to an inner chorus of Dr. Seuss, Lewis Carroll, and George Orwell urging “think six dozen Alternative Facts each day before breakfast” – an essential tonic before the daily dose of confusion spun out by dysfunctional leaders of our body politic. Related prior works riffed on random tweaks of the near mathematical growth patterns of bamboo (Bamboo, 2015), on vision-memories of South Africa (Bamboo.2: Neo-Tribal Fetish Objects, 2016), and on contemplations of language with functional and nonfunctional handmade bamboo brushes (Brushes with Meaning, 2017). website: http://charlesstinson.com/ email: charlesstinson@me.com studio: 1890 Bryant St., Ste. 300, San Franciso CA 94110
photograph by Roger Arvid Anderson
CHARLES H. STINSON’s multi-faceted creations take shape in his space at 1890 Bryant Street Studios in San Francisco, California. Born and raised in Texas, he moved to San Francisco in 1978. He is current president of Pacific Rim Sculptors (PRS), a chapter of the International Sculpture Center. EDUCATION
Studies at the Houston Museum of Art School of Art Japanese calligraphy with Sensei Shioh Kato, San Francisco, CA Traditional & photogravure etching techniques at Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA Largely self-directed learning
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2016 2015 2013 2008 2004 1985
Pacific Rim Sculptors: International Sculpture Day, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA. Soul Season: Works by Charles H. Stinson, a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA. California Sculpture SLAM, CCS & San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Left Coast, Western Regional show sponsored by Marin Society of Artists, Marin, CA. Discarted – Art from Trash, Ojai Art Festival Juried Exhibition. Wisdom 2.0: Mindfulness, Wisdom and Compassion in the Technology Age; San Francisco, CA; Will Chase, Curator. Beyond Gaga, Pacific Rim Sculptors, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA. 75th Annual Awards Exhibition, National Sculpture Society, New York, NY. 75th Annual Awards Exhibition, Brookgreen Gardens, Pawleys Island, SC. Off the Rim, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ; Brooke Barrie, Curator. Senkei International Calligraphy Competition, Tokyo, Japan. Certificate of Special Merit.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2004 “In Three Dimensions: Twelve sculptors speak out about self-expression in their chosen media”, Norman Kolpas, Southwest Art. 2012 Hot Poems for Warm Friends, George Paris. C. H. Stinson, editor, Starchand Press, San Francisco, CA. 2016 A Gristly Tail, by Charles H. Stinson, Starchand Press, San Francisco, CA.
Device for achieving oblique entry into enclosed spaces mixed media 12” x 15.5” x 14” $450
Device for filtering out alternative facts mixed media 12.5” x 9” x 6” $450
Device for seeking safe transit mixed media 8.5” x 8” x 4.5” $450
Device for shutting off dark thoughts mixed media 16” x 8” x 4” $450
Charles Stinson
Device #2 for achieving indirect entry into enclosed spaces mixed media 26” x 8” x 6” $450
Device for transitioning from old to new technology mixed media 12” x 12” x 4” $450
Device for summoning rain mixed media 27” x 12” x 9” $450
Device for converting facts into alternative facts mixed media 8.5” x 8” x 4.5” $450
Charles Stinson
Device for compacting alternative facts mixed media 10” x 8.5” x 5” $450
Device for controlling access to forbidden notions mixed media 10” x 9” x 3” $450
Device for holding uncomfortable thoughts at a manageable distance mixed media 11” x 8.5” x 4” $450
Device for summoning spirits mixed media 11” x 8” x 3” $450
Charles Stinson
Device for clumsily addressing delicate situations mixed media 11.5” x 11” x 6.5” $450
Device for ensuring plentiful clean water mixed media 9” x 10” x 4.5” $450
Device for controlling circuitous thoughts mixed media 10.5” x 9” x 4” $450
Device for tracing an idea back to its source mixed media 14” x 9” x 5.5” $450
Charles Stinson
Melissa Wagner
Roadways, Tributaries, and Branches
With a background in scientific illustration, Melissa Wagner's work uses a variety of methods and media to engage the natural world. Melissa playfully composes her vision of a world that harnesses natural subjects to construct new models where art, earth, science, and wonder intersect. Melissa draws her inspiration from her love of nature and extensive local and global travels.
Roadways, Tributaries, and Branches overlays the mystery and magic of everyday images with texts and cartography, that invoke the act of looking forward: letting the lines and paths lead, taking a moment to observe and create one’s own narrative. - dedicated to Kathleen Shannon Sullivan Douglass
website: http://www.wagnerpaintings.com/ email: melissa@wagnerpaintings.com
EDUCATION 1999
BFA
University of Michigan: major in Scientific Illustration; double major in Art and Biology
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2008 2007 2005 2001 2000
FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Commissioned Installation; Sarabeth’s, Dubai, UAE Commissioned Installation; Sarabeth’s, Nagoya, Japan IMPULSE; Arc Gallery, San Francisco. CA Commissioned Installation; Belga, San Francisco, CA Commissioned Installation; Delarosa Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA Secession Gallery Grand Opening, San Francisco, CA Flight, solo show, Blackbird, San Francisco, CA Commissioned Installation; Delarosa Chestnut, San Francisco, CA Commissioned Installation; Barbacco Trattoria, San Francisco, CA Commissioned Installation; Hyatt Lone Eagle Grill, Incline Village NV Secession Gallery, Group show, San Francisco, CA Commissioned Installation; Twenty Five Lusk, San Francisco, CA Re-connecting; 2nd Annual University of Michigan Alumni Show, Ann Arbor, MI Solo Show; Benefitting Art for City Youth, San Francisco, CA 10 years of Eco-Exploring;, University of Michigan Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI Multiple Choice; a juried multi-media exhibit, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA pARTicipate!; Monkey Fresh Studios, San Francisco, CA Commissioned Installation for Chef Rick Moonen at RM Seafood, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV Best of the Bay Show, Culture Cache Gallery, San Francisco, CA Spring Show; Mad River Post, San Francisco, CA
RESIDENCIES + APPEARANCES 2014 2007 2003 2002 2001
Featured Speaker, National Association of Professional Women, San Francisco, CA "Celebrity Artist” Presenter at the Genetech Awards Presentation, San Francisco, CA Legion of Honor Artist in Residence Program, San Francisco, CA De Young Art Center Artist in Residence Program, San Francisco, CA Mural Project Director; Sanchez Elementary in San Francisco, CA East Palo Alto Charter School Mural Project Director, East Palo Alto, CA
PUBLICATIONS + AWARDS 2011 2010 2009 2006 2005
Architectural Record, Twenty Five Lusk Installation Contract Magazine, Barbacco Trattoria Installation People’s Choice Award: University of Michigan Alumni Show, Ann Arbor, MI Artwork featured in “Top Chef Las Vegas” at RM Seafood at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV California Home & Design Magazine Hospitality Design Magazine, RM Seafood at Mandalay Bay Installation
Melissa Wagner
Baltic mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Highlands mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Arabian Sea mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Cuba mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Melissa Wagner
British Isles mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Russia mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Michigan mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Eurasia mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Melissa Wagner
Norcal mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Pittsburgh mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Iceland mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Midwest mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Melissa Wagner
Joshua Tree mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Australia mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Africa mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Puerto Rico mixed media 10” x 10” $450
Bambi Waterman
Polyps The primary focus of my work has been an investigation of form in the Natural World. My intensive explorations with porcelain clay have aspired to lend a clarity and beauty to the subtle complexities found in the process of life forms, with relationship to the cycles of existence. My continued interest in ecology and biological form has lent me to an investigation of Coral Reefs and the millions of tiny colonies of Polyps that make up these vast underwater landscapes. Coral Reefs are one of the wonders of the natural world. Protecting thousands of miles of shoreline from erosion, these intricate structures support biodiversity essential to the balance of the worlds ecosystems. They are one of Nature’s most significant and ancient infrastructures. Global warming and our overuse of the reefs is causing untold damage to these beautiful yet fragile formations. Through the use of Porcelain clay, and the inspiration of the tiny Polyps that slowly grow and lay down the supporting skeleton of the Coral Reefs, I have created a series of sculptural forms. These have developed and evolved in relation to one another, and portray both subtle and extreme changes in form and structure. Each of the sculptures tiny vessel forms are open as well as connected to one another to signify the hope and possibility of the process of rebuilding and growth.
website: http://189734764396354343.weebly.com/ email: bambiwaterman@gmail.com
EDUCATION
MFA BFA
Mills College, Oakland, CA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2001,06 2002,06 2001,02 2000,01 1999
Instructor The College of Marin, Art Department, Kentfield CA Guest Artist Sonoma State University, Art Department, Rohnert Park, CA Instructor California State University, Hayward, CA Assistant Mills College, Art Department, Oakland, CA Instructor San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
RECENT EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014
Art from te Heart – Sonoma State University Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA Reflections / Shadows, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA Summer Show, Calabi Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA Biodiversity, A Closer Look (2-Person with Krista Anandakuttan), Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA Art from the Heart – Sonoma State University Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA Gregory Roberts C2 Gallery, Petaluma, CA Reflection (Solo), Abrams Claghorn Gallery Albany, CA California Now; The Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA Clay,Glass & Enamel Juried Exhibition sponsored by the Center for Enamel Art and The Association of Clay & Glass Artists of California Abrams Claghorn Gallery , Albany, CA America’s Clay Fest, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA Impulse, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art from the Heart – Sonoma State University Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA Wetlands, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA Beasties, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 17th Annual Dia de los Muertos, San Jose City Hall Rotunda, San Jose, CA Big Ideas 1950 – 1970: Influences in Modern Ceramics, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA Bibliophoria II, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA Vessels, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA Art from the Heart – Sonoma State University Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
RECENT GRANTS,SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS 2014 2001 2000
Beasties, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Coordinator Award, Sebastopol CA Bibliophoria III, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Merit Award, Sebastopol CA Vessels, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Merit Award, Sebastopol CA Eleanor Crum Ceramic Award Mills College Graduate Research Grant Neil Stinton Graduate Scholarship Graduate Faculty Nomination; Dedalus Foundation Fellowship SFAI Graduate Merit Fellowship Grant
Bambi Waterman
Polyps 1 porcelain, blues & purples 6" x 6" x 4" $300
Polyps 2 porcelain, bright red 3" x 3" x 3" $300
Polyps 3 porcelain, bright red 4" x 4" x 3" $300
Polyps 4 porcelain, yellow & orange 4" x 5'" x 3" $300
Bambi Waterman
Polyps 5 porcelain, purples 4" x 5" x 3" $500
Polyps 6 porcelain, bright yellow 4" x 4" x 4" $300
Polyps 7 porcelain, violet 4" x 4" x 3" $300
Polyps 8 porcelain, chartreuse 3" x 3" x 2" $300
Bambi Waterman
Polyps 9 porcelain, amethyst 3" x 4" x 4" $300
Polyps 10 porcelain, turquoise 2" x 4" x 5" $300
Polyps 11 porcelain, orange & red 4" x 4" x 3" $300
Polyps12 porcelain, yellow, orange & blue 3" x 3" x 4" $300
Bambi Waterman
Polyps 13 porcelain, bright orange 4" x 5" x 3" $500
Polyps 14 porcelain, sea greeen & blue 5" x 3" x 5" $300
Polyps 15 porcelain, electric blue 5" x 4" x 3" $500
Polyps 16 porcelain, flame orange 4" x 3" x 3" $300
Ealish Wilson
In Plane Sight My work investigates pattern and its transformation through surface manipulation. Influenced by travel, architecture, the aesthetic traditions from Japan and the Arts and Crafts movement, my textile constructions showcase materiality using a variety of substrates and structural form created through a process of continual manipulation. The printed surface is where the manipulation starts. Photography plays an essential yet subtle role in my work. I capture imagery from daily life, various cultures and architecture to create my digitally manipulated textiles. Using techniques normally associated with fashion, such a pleating and smocking, I work meticulously by hand to create structure, which starts to morph the custom-made textile into new iterations. Once, again, I turn to the photographic process to rework the patterns and print the transformed textiles onto cloth before finally pleating and smocking into my textile constructions. The work in FourSquared has been inspired by flying, watching colors meld together into a blanket of tones as you rise higher above the earth. I set about creating abstract paintings, in a limited color palette to illustrate this patchwork. Once photographed I had the paintings digitally printed onto cloth, but these felt to busy for a collection. I revisited the paintings and honed in on my favorite areas of line and texture and created repeating patterns. Again these were all digitally printed onto cloth ready for manipulation with smocking. The Mizuhiki strings (Japanese paper ties) are something I like to use in my work to add depth and texture, for me they are a simple gesture like a drawn line. In each piece I’ve tried to give a sense of the different landscapes through shape, color and texture.
website: http://ealishwilson.com/ email: ealish@ealishwilson.com
EDUCATION 1991-93 BA 1999-00 MA
Hons Art Textiles and History, Chester University, Chester, UK Textile Design with computer applications, Scottish College of Textiles, Galasheils, UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2008 2005 2004
Fiber Art VIII, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA SCRAP, Reclaimed: elevating the art of reuse, SFArtsED Gallery at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA Roll Up Gallery, ArtSpan group show, San Francisco, CA stARTup Art Fair, Hotel de Sol, San Francisco. CA ArtSpan Selections 2016, Midway SF, 900 Marin Street, San Francisco. CA Secrets, Arc Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco. CA Felt Encounters, Pacific Felt Factory, San Francisco, CA. SFOS Hub Exhibition, Triton Hotel, San Francisco, CA. Fiber Arts VII, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA Red Dot Studio with Bluebird Art, featured artist , San Francisco, CA Make a Room, American Craft Council, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA Textiles, Concordia Design, Poznan, Poland. 16th International Minitextile Exhibition, Bratislava, Slovakia. Make a Room, American Craft Council, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA FEATURE, Berkeley Arts Centre, Berkeley, CA Project Make, Bluebird Art, San Francisco, CA ARRAY, Berkeley Arts Centre, Berkeley, CA 16th International Minitextile Exhibition, Bratislava, Slovakia. Tieton 12 x 12, Mighty Tieton, Tieton, WA Small Bites, Nagoya University of the Arts and Science, Nagoya, Japan. Small Bites, Daiwa Foundation, London,UK Between, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA Revealed, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK Through the Surface, National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Japan. Through The Surface, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK
COMMISSIONS 2016 2008 2006 2004 2001
TransAmerica, Capital One Art collection, San Francisco, CA Fire Escapes, Wordpress, San Francisco CA Isle of Man Hospice Chapel Commission: Douglas, Isle of Man, British Isles Isle of Man Arts Council Commission, Nobles Hospital, Douglas, Isle of Man, British Isles J Co and J Capital ltd, 26m Textile Commission, St, Mary’s Court, Douglas, Isle of Man, British Isles Conran and Partners, Textile Ceiling Commission, Food Hall, Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh, UK
COLLECTIONS
Capital One Art Collection, Digital Lab, San Francisco, CA Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Contemporary Textile Collection, Nottingham,UK. Manx Museum, Contemporary Art Collection, Douglas, Isle of Man, British Isles
In Plane Sight 1 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
In Plane Sight 2 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
In Plane Sight 5 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
In Plane Sight 6 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
Ealish Wilson
In Plane Sight 3 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
In Plane Sight 4 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
In Plane Sight 7 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
In Plane Sight 8 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
Ealish Wilson
In Plane Sight 9 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
In Plane Sight 10 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
In Plane Sight 13 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
In Plane Sight 14 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
Ealish Wilson
In Plane Sight 11 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
In Plane Sight 12 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
In Plane Sight 15 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
In Plane Sight 16 digital print on cotton/linen smocked with mizuhiki strings 8" x 8 x 1.5" $295
Ealish Wilson
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